Americaness

English Pronunciation en /əˈmɛɹɪkənəs/ UK en /əˈmɛɹəkənəs/ US Etymology 1 From en American ness or en America ness. Noun - en Americanness. en 2002 Rusty L. Monhollon "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas http://books.google.com/books?id=AQzGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125&dq=%22americaness%22 125 Palgrave 9781403982407 There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past. en 2005 Sarah K. Fields Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America http://books.google.com/books?id=_EzDN_7XP4cC&pg=PA47&dq=%22americaness%22 47 University of Illinois Press 2008 0252029585 Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities en 2008 Patrick B. Mullen The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore http://books.google.com/books?id=ESZDDVqIsAUC&pg=PA8&dq=%22americaness%22 8 University of Illinois Press 9780252032653 The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: Etymology 2 From en American ess<id:female>. Noun en rare A female American. en 1839 w:James Fenimore Cooper Home as Found 93 https://books.google.ca/books?id=xsKP7tnpmQUC&pg=PA93 With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion. en 1856 https://books.google.ca/books?id=7uhLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA269 Household Words 35 There was, at the Leek, in the way of literature, aBradshaw, a work (selling sixty thousand daily, it said) of one of those Americanesses who have struggled in at the gate of the heaven of popularity before it could be shut after Mrs. Beecher Stowe 1889 Americanisms (quoting Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, date unknown) This woman is like most Americanesses - she hates walking. 2007 1634: The Baltic War But this office was reputedly run by Americanesses, and the stories about them were enough to make any sane man pause. Incredible women, by all accounts 2017 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught Between me and the picture of Denise— mostly the portrait—they'll be thinking 'Americans.' Well, Americanesses. See also Africaness Asianess Europeaness en Demonyms American demonyms